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Droplet growth, Ostwald's rule, and emergence of order in Fused in Sarcoma
Farkhad Maksudov, Mauro L. Mugnai, Laura Dominguez +2
The low complexity domain of Fused in Sarcoma (FUS-LC consisting of 214 residues) undergoes phase separation, resulting in a dense liquid-like phase that forms early and slowly mat…
Inter-Species Interactions in Dual, Fibrous Gel Enable Control of Gel Structure and Rheology
Mauro L Mugnai, Rose Tchuenkam Batoum, Emanuela Del Gado
Natural and synthetic multi-component gels display emergent properties, which implies that they are more than just the sum of their components. This warrants the investigation of t…
Conformational Fluctuations and Phases in Fused in Sarcoma (FUS) Low-Complexity Domain
D. Thirumalai, Abhinaw Kumar, Debayan Chakraborty +2
The well known phenomenon of phase separation in synthetic polymers and proteins has become a major topic in biophysics because it has been invoked as a mechanism of compartment fo…
Information flow, Gating, and Energetics in dimeric molecular motors
Ryota Takaki, Mauro L. Mugnai, D. Thirumalai
Molecular motors belonging to the kinesin and myosin super family hydrolyze ATP by cycling through a sequence of chemical states. These cytoplasmic motors are dimers made up of two…
On the emergence of orientational order in folded proteins with implications for allostery
Debayan Chakraborty, Mauro Lorenzo Mugnai, D. Thirumalai
The beautiful structures of single and multi-domain proteins are clearly ordered in some fashion but cannot be readily classified using group theory methods that are successfully u…
Fragile-to-Strong Crossover, growing length scales, and dynamic heterogeneity in Wigner Glasses
Hyun Woo Cho, Mauro L. Mugnai, T. R. Kirkpatrick +1
Colloidal particles, which are ubiquitous, have become ideal testing grounds for the structural glass transition (SGT) theories. In these systems glassy behavior is manifested as t…
Theoretical Perspectives on Biological Machines
Mauro L. Mugnai, Changbong Hyeon, Michael Hinczewski +1
Many biological functions are executed by molecular machines, which consume energy and convert it into mechanical work. Biological machines have evolved to transport cargo, facilit…
How kinesin waits for ATP affects the nucleotide and load dependence of the stepping kinetics
Ryota Takaki, Mauro L. Mugnai, Yonathan Goldtzvik +1
Dimeric molecular motors walk on polar tracks by binding and hydrolyzing one ATP per step. Despite tremendous progress, the waiting state for ATP binding in the well-studied kinesi…
Giant Casimir non-equilibrium forces drive coil to globule transition in polymers
Himadri S. Samanta, Mauro L. Mugnai, T. R. Kirkpatrick +1
We develop a theory to probe the effect of non-equilibrium fluctuation-induced forces on the size of a polymer confined between two horizontal thermally conductive plates subject t…